《乘上城 甲天下》(2011)

李文政 Wen-Cheng Lee

《乘上城　甲天下》 ，數位動畫，3分鐘，2011。

讓山只是山，有也等於沒有。人的存在建於土地之上，不管是何種空間形式，總是被不停被定義，土地＝房地產＝家＝地盤＝財富＝BOT＝國家主義＝通路＝店租＝資源＝天下，土地對人來說有無限的定義與用途，而無法的定義的動植物就在人的繁忙空檔中，慢慢的繁衍，流浪狗最初不是流浪者，只因我們改變了其生存方式與本能。

今年難得因為一則停止國光石化興建的新聞，感動一整天，發現了良善的可能，年近三十的我，有了成家立業的責任，更驚覺土地的遊戲，多元到難以想像，卻發現，山為何不能只是山，空地就一定要BOT，一定要活化？或許放開所有權與定義，才能擁有真的定義。希望山只是山、隱於山、養於山、感於山，安靜的被大地擁抱，找到良心的歸宿。

面對看不見的敵人，卻一直存在的意識，是我創作的初衷。

Building the word, Digital Animation, 3 min, 2011.

Let Mountain Be the Mountain – It Is There As If It Is Not There. Land helps to build up human beings’ existence. Land, however, with its unlimited usages, is defined through different space concepts. Land = Real Property = Home = Territory = BOT = Nationalism = Product Channels = Shop Rents = Resource = The World. As for those animals or plants which are not empowered to define themselves, they have to follow their nature, carrying on propagation even though they are ignored and forgotten by human beings who are occupied developing the intellectual world. A street dog would not have been a stray one if we hadn’t changed its instinctive way of life to survive.  

Earlier this year, I was moved by the news that the plan for Kuokuang Petrochemical plant has been stopped.  For the whole day, I had been filled with the joy because of the possibility of the human goodness. As a man reaching his thirties, I start to realize my responsibility to establish my own family.  I am also shocked by what human beings have been doing to the earth and what they are capable of doing.  The various forms are even beyond my imagination. It is beyond my imagination.  Then I cannot help but wondering: why can’t mountain just be mountain? Why should the vacant space be Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)?  Why should it be activated?

Maybe only when we get rid of all the ideas of property, possessions, and definition can we actually own the land. I still wish that mountain is just mountain – hidden in the mountains, nurtured in the mountains, and being in the mountains. 

And then we will be embraced by the land, quietly.

In Wen-Cheng Lee’s artistic exploration, he adopts the form of real property broadcasting and the fetishism represented by the giant robot to discuss the possibility of digital images, focusing on the invisible power play and the living space as his essential concept.